On Nov. 18, TEDsters gathered at the UN to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the launch of the Charter for Compassion — Karen Armstrong’s 2008 TED Prize Wish. The event, TEDPrize@UN featured talks on compassion by a number of fascinating speakers. Watch the archive of the TEDPrize@UN webcast >> Photos from the event: Karen Armstrong: […]
TEDGlobal 2009 Fellow Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has announced his candidacy for president of Nigeria. In his first North American interview since the announcement, the anti-corruption activist spoke with TED’s Emeka Okafor, keeper of the seminal Africa blog Timbuktu Chronicles. There is a tremendous amount of interest in your run for presidency. What would you attribute […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_FaoKxvFA] TEDxYouthDay events have begun around the world! Watch the TEDxYouthDay Livestream — or sign up for a Meetup Everywhere to watch the stream. Many events on Nov. 20, including TEDxYouth@Tokyo, TEDxYouth@HongKong, TEDxYouth@Singapore and TEDxYouth@NASA, will be collaborating through the livestream to do shout-outs and program sharing to other TEDxYouthDay events. Plus! Jim Stolze from […]
Join John Hardy on a tour of the Green School, his off-the-grid school in Bali that teaches kids how to build, garden, create (and get into college). The centerpiece of campus is the spiraling Heart of School, perhaps the world’s largest freestanding bamboo building. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2010, July 2010 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 13:36) […]
Today, Thursday, Nov. 18, at 11 a.m. ET, join us in celebrating the one-year anniversary of the launch of the Charter for Compassion — Karen Armstrong’s 2008 TED Prize Wish. The event, TEDPrize@UN — hosted by the United Nations — will be streamed live over the web, and feature talks on compassion by a number […]
With three weeks to go before the event, we’re proud to present the TEDWomen speaker lineup for the event happening Dec. 7-8, 2010, in Washington, DC. Our theme is “Reshaping the Future” — and the program highlights women as powerful innovators and architects of change. Along with TED’s curatorial partner The Paley Center for Media, […]
Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with Israel’s juvenile inmates and was touched by both their intense difficulties and profound successes. (Recorded at TEDxTel Aviv 2010, April 2010 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Duration: 15:47) [ted id=1009] […]
Photo from TEDxBoulder. From the TEDx Posterous blog: Today marks another TEDx milestone — today’s TEDxBerlin is the 1000th TEDx event! The first TEDx event — TEDxUSC — was in March 2009, and in less than two years, one has become 1000. Here’s to 1000 more, and some highlights of the past 1000: TEDx events […]
From rockets to stock markets, many of humanity’s most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach — calculation by hand — isn’t just tedious, it’s mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: […]
TEDxYouthDay is a series of TEDx events happening all around the world on November 20 — Universal Children’s Day. The events are designed to empower and inspire youth and kids. TEDx organizers across the globe will host events for (and by) young people. These events will vary widely in size, format and theme, but they […]
Ecologist Eric Berlow doesn’t feel overwhelmed when faced with complex systems. He knows that more information can lead to a better, simpler solution. Illustrating the tips and tricks for breaking down big issues, he distills an overwhelming infographic on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan to a few elementary points. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2010, July 2010 in […]
Aaron Huey’s effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people compelled him to refocus. Five years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking history lesson in this bold, courageous talk from TEDxDU. (Recorded at TEDxDU, September 2010 in […]
Civil wars and ethnic conflicts have brought the world incredible suffering, but Stefan Wolff’s figures show that, in the last 20 years, their number has steadily decreased. He extracts critical lessons from Northern Ireland, Liberia, Timor and more to show that leadership, diplomacy and institutional design are our three most effective weapons in waging peace. […]
Designer Emily Pilloton moved to rural Bertie County, in North Carolina, to engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation. She’s teaching a design-build class called Studio H that engages high schoolers’ minds and bodies while bringing smart design and new opportunities to the poorest county in the state. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2010, July […]
What does it take to make an everyday object — say, a toaster — from scratch? And does anyone know how to make it, all the way from mining for iron ore to plugging it into the electric grid? Those are the questions designer Thomas Thwaites sought to answer when he engaged in the Toaster […]
Musical innovator Andrew Bird winds together his trademark violin technique with xylophone, vocals and sophisticated electronic looping. Add in his uncanny ability to whistle anything, and he becomes a riveting one-man orchestra. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, California. Duration: 19:20) [ted id=1001] Watch Andrew Bird’s performance on TED.com where you can download […]